| Panic! at the Disco – She's a Handsome Woman Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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From Arthur Rimbaud's "Une Saison en Enfer/A Season in Hell": "I am a widow... - I was a widow... - ah yes, I was really serious once, and I was not born to be a skeleton!... - He was hardly more than a child. His mysterious delicacies had seduced me. I forgot all my duty to society, to follow him. What a life! Real life is absent. We are not in the world. I go where he goes, I have to. And often he flies into a rage at me, me, the poor soul. The Demon! He is a demon, you know, he is not a man." And a few passages later...: "He says: 'I do not like women: love must be reinvented, that's obvious. A secure position is all they're capable of desiring now..." It's obvious that they're paying homage to Rimbaud/Une Saison en Enfer. I think this really alters any interpretations of the song - you've got to look at Rimbaud and the way he lived his life, as well as the content of Une Saison. Etc, etc... |
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